The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-24

on vacation; merchants aud clerks doctors
and lawyers. among the latter Thomas g.
Shearman, of Brooklyn. Mr.. Beecher.s fearful
Tommy'-men and women who were going
back to visit the ''old home" after many years
OF aosence-but the greater number were those to
whom the old world was all new. About the
third day the tables were pretty we'll filed. the
decks were used more than the state
rooms, and people began to pick mp
a little acquaintance with each other
Those who never did such a thing before in their
lives got up before breakfast, and took a spin
about the deck in the bracing sea air before that
meal. Breakfast until 9, luncheon at l. dinner
from to Z. and a lunch at P. NJ. was the order
of the day. and between these hours people
amused themselves as best they might. Prom
enadine, reading, pitching rope rings or quoits
the shuttle board. skinny" and tug of war,
at the ropes end were the principal diversions.
We had not been out long until the Irish cues
tom broke loose. A Scotchman and an English
man locked horns one night over home rule and
attracted quite audience The debate waxed
warm, and it was finally determined that there
should be parliamentary debate the City
of Rome. Mr.. WILL of Paisley, Scotland,
assumed to champion Gladstone, and Mr.. Ross,
of the London Telegraph. Lord Salisbury. The
affair was carried out to show Americans how
Gradually the interest among the passengers
deepened spreading to the aft cabin, and even
below to the steerage. Committees were APP
pointed, and they issued election addresses and
placards which ornamented the cabin sides for
two days. Some of the placards were decidedly
pungent aud aggressive Gladstone is a turn
coat" Gladstone's Tory, Wing a Liberal,
Parnellite, and finally idiot" marked the
political evolution of the "Grand Old Man"
The pacards of the one party defaced by
the adherents of the other, and some were
Immediately torn down. The Americans en-
tered into the matter simply for the purpose of
gaining Information. but the English, Scotch
and Irish really became earnest, and the feeling
high if the election were real The
Conservative candidate was especially aggress-
i've, while the Liberal had much the better com.
mand of himself, and, as events proved was alto
gether too much for his moro vehement op-
ponent. On the day of election, Rev. DR..
Sturtevant of Cleveland was chosen to take the
chair. There were several hundred passengers
gathered abaft the saloon cabin. The two candi-
dates tossed for the choice and Salisbury win
ming. he opened the debate. Then followed Mr..
Gladstone. The interruptions wore numerous
and several times the chairman had to intervene
After tho two candidates had spoken questions
took the platform and asked the candidates any
thing they desired. and the candidate answered
or not, as he pleased In this part of the affair
Salisbury came off decidedly second best. Then
a gentleman proposed Salisbury a candidate,
and the proposition was seconded, and the like
was done for Gladstone. fearful Tommy" be-
ing his seconder, whereupon the chairman
called for a show of hands, which over
whelm1ngly in favor of Gladstone that it was
not disputed, and the election over. Had
there been dispute, there must have been q
polling of the votes. All this had much of inter-
est in it for all on board, but it evident that
the Irish question is a very live to the king
dom of Great Britain. Every Briton, no matter
who what, had his opinion the subject, and
a very positive one: the question only had to be
mentioned to fire him up on the moment Dur
ing these two three days the City of Rome
Great Britain in miniature, and I can but
think the decision in the will be the
ultimate decision in the other, matter how
long delayed nor through how many tortuous
channels it may come
There was death board-a little child
whose mother herself was a consumptive not far
from the grave. The father and husband was
in California, and the poor woman was hasten
ing back to her birthplace in the hope that the
softer airs of old England would kiss back the
roses to her cheeks and health to her enfeebled
body. The babe died in the aftern Don, and at 1
o'clock after midnight it committed to the
deep until the day when the sea shall give up it's
dead. The cabin passengers raised purse of
ST 80 for the bereaved steerage passenger and for
that day. at least one touch of nature made the
whole little world kim On Sunday morning
there service in the saloon, and at night
praise meeting. at which Glasgow, Cleveland
and Charleston Is. c. minister and Scotch,
English and American layman spoke. 1t was
certainly cosmopolitan gathering and gave
phasis to the idea of Christian brotherhood,
which had been the theme of the morning DIS
There was the usual concert board.
which realized $50. and which really worth
the price, inasmuch as it ended with America"
"God Save the Queen" being subordnated to our
national hymn, British chorister leading the
whole company in the anthem The time was
thus passed until. the seventh day, an old
mariner said he ''smelled the land" At noon
Wednesday the watchers deserted the shore.
It not long until the outlines of the Irish
coast were to be seen, sentineled by three out
lying islands, known 1.-THE Bull, !" 1.-The Cow"
and 1.-THE Calf" They quite small, in the
order named. It is appropriate that the first
thing you see of Ireland should be ''bull." The
approach to the Emerald Isle is stern and rock
bound. picturesque and beautiful. On the head
lands still stand the rock towers erected as look
outs for the French smugglers who formerly IN
tested the coast. AS the panorama unrolls itself
the outlines of the coast gradually soften until
as we stand off Queenstown harbor, sea and land
kiss each other without fret. There were a num-
Der of Irishmen on board, among them a couple
of Catholic priests who were revisiting their
birth place. AS we steamed by the beautifully
undulating shore one of them stood, with eyes
filled with tears, drinking in the scene. 1 could
but recall the pathetic lines of Campbells Exile
of Erin and involuntarily sympathize with him
in his eagerness to more tread the soil he
loved. There must be much in a land that SO
commands the emotion ard devotion of its chill
dren, and every true spirited man must hope that